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Pradeep Bisht

@pradeepbisht1

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Senior engineering leader and CTO building AI platforms at enterprise scale.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead engineering teams building real user-impact products—especially AI/ML platforms—where I own technical vision, enterprise delivery, and long-term architecture with strong engineering culture.

I’m a senior engineering leader and CTO with 20+ years building and scaling technical organizations from startup to enterprise. I’ve built engineering teams of 50+ across 6 countries, managed $5M+ budgets, and driven $40M acquisition through technical excellence.

I bring a deep hands-on foundation—15 patents and products shipped to 100M+ users—across AI/ML, SaaS, storage, and infrastructure. I’m a builder who does my best work focused on engineering teams and solving real user problems.

As CTO at Taffi Inc., I built the entire engineering organization from zero: structure, hiring across 6 countries, delivery cadence, and engineering culture. I set the technical vision for an AI fashion platform on GCP (microservices, ML serving pipeline, real-time APIs) and built core systems hands-on before team handoff, including TaffiVision, Style Stitcher, Fashion Passport, and Amira.

I’ve also delivered measurable business impact through enterprise partnerships and operational excellence—Adidas technical integration with 120% CR lift and 53% AOV lift, and 99.9% uptime with CI/CD, testing, and on-call practices. Prior to that, I architected and scaled product stacks at MOJO X and led next-gen storage engineering at NVELO (independent R&D post-acquisition), supported by a consistent track record across product, platform, and technical strategy.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Chief Technology Officer

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Taffi Inc.

Aug 2021 - Present (4 years 10 months)

Built Taffi's engineering organization from zero, hiring across 6 countries and establishing delivery cadence and engineering culture. Architected the end-to-end AI platform on GCP and delivered measurable enterprise impact with Adidas (120% CR lift, 53% AOV lift), while managing a $1.5M budget and maintaining 99.9% uptime.

GCP Microservices Firestore BigQuery Pinecone

Chief Technology Officer

Mojo X, Inc.

Feb 2017 - Oct 2023 (6 years 8 months)

Bootstrapped and led a video-first vertical SaaS for news and media organizations by architecting the product stack and building a team of 15 offshore developers. Established early revenue through production-house engagements and pilots and navigated the company through a private acquisition.

SaaS Product Development Platform Architecture Cross functional Leadership Revenue Growth Stakeholder Management

Chief Technology Officer

Spyhop Inc.

Jun 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 7 months)

Led product, engineering, and strategy for a marketplace connecting media organizations with freelance videographers for on-demand stock footage. Architected the platform, built a team of 10 offshore developers, launched adoption with hundreds of videographers, and later supported a pivot to Mojo X.

Product Strategy Engineering Leadership Offshore Development Teams User Adoption Video Platform Systems Architecture Pivot Planning

VP Engineering

Vocareum, Inc.

Feb 2015 - May 2015 (3 months)

Built core platform IPs including a high-performance code analysis and plagiarism detection system and a cloud terminal. Delivered tools adopted by hundreds of universities supporting 1M+ students.

Platform Engineering Software Architecture Performance Optimization

Head and CTO

Nvelo Lab

Jan 2013 - Jan 2015 (2 years)

Led NVELO as an independent R&D unit within Samsung, overseeing operations, a $5M+ budget, and a global team of 50+ engineers. Shipped RAPID v1.0 software-only SSD acceleration used by 100M+ users and built distributed software-defined storage plus mobile SSD solutions.

SSD Acceleration Software Defined Storage Distributed Systems Systems Performance Mobile Storage (Android Windows)R&D Operations Budget Ownership

Chief Technology Officer

Nvelo Inc.

Jul 2010 - Dec 2012 (2 years 5 months)

Architected end-to-end software-managed SSD product capabilities from conception through acquisition, including SSD-aware caching algorithms, kernel software, BIOS, and UX. Achieved 2x faster SSD caching than leading competitors and secured Tier-I/II OEM contracts leading to a $40M acquisition by Samsung.

SSD Caching Algorithms Performance Engineering Hardware Software Co Design Team Leadership Product Architecture

Software Manager

Denali Software Inc

Jan 2004 - Jun 2010 (6 years 5 months)

Led development of verification IP for chip design, including IBM CoreConnect, Ethernet, PCIe, and CE-ATA memories, and delivered Flashpoint for NAND flash systems. Supported ongoing IP development contributing $10M+/year revenue.

Protocol IP (Ethernet PCIe CE ATA)NAND Flash Memory

Software Design Engineer

Texas Instruments

Jul 2002 - Mar 2004 (1 year 8 months)

Designed and developed EDA software for characterization of ASIC digital libraries used by in-house teams to ship thousands of chip designs. Contributed to tooling that supported end-to-end chip development workflows.

EDA Tools ASIC Digital Library Characterization Software Engineering Performance Usability Improvements